He blags his way into Dr Connors's lab and sneaks into a top-secret room where spiders are being experimented upon. ![]() Poor Peter is now hopelessly in love with classmate Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and is being looked after by his tolerant Uncle Ben, played by Martin Sheen (effectively reprising the blue-collar dad he played opposite Charlie Sheen in Wall Street ), and Aunt May, played by Sally Field. His work is now being carried on by the faintly sinister Dr Curt Connors – played by Rhys Ifans – a man with just one arm, who longs for a lizard's ability to regrow limbs. Instead of the arbitrary happenstance of getting bitten by a radioactive or genetically modified spider, Parker is the orphan of troubled scientist Richard Parker (Campbell Scott) who was working on inter-species DNA splicing, before being killed with Peter's mother in a mysterious car wreck. ![]() This time, it’s driven front and center for much. ![]() Peter Parker's arachnid destiny is made manifest from the get-go, and for me the narrative has more power. As the climactic virtual battle of the VGHS finale also takes place in Field of Fire, naturally the Ford F-150 was going to make a reappearance.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |